Copying file has unexpected side effect

From	Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Copying file has unexpected side effect
Date	2017-04-09 17:50 +0200
Message-ID	<tungd-4Fb-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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I have a laptop with multiple installs of Debian Jessie using MATE 
desktop. There are minor differences of package complements - the 
purpose being to determine an optimal configuration.

There are a relatively small number of files which I would like to have 
the latest version available no matter which install is active.

My solution was to place this files on a separate partition of the hdd.
It will be mounted at boot. The fstab entry is currently
UUID=E90C-65B4  /media/common vfat auto,exec,rw,flush,umask=000  0 0

The problem occurred on the very first use:
I opened /media/common by double-clicking its desktop icon.
I then:
   right-clicked on the desktop icon of a text file
   selected "Copy" from the menu
   moved mouse over the displayed directory of /media/common
   right-clicked and chose "Paste" from menu

The file was _apparently_ copied as expected.
*HOWEVER* the act of copying set the execution flag.
Why?

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Copying file has unexpected side effect Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-04-09 17:50 +0200
  Re: Copying file has unexpected side effect Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-04-09 18:10 +0200
    Re: Copying file has unexpected side effect Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2017-04-09 21:50 +0200
      Re: Copying file has unexpected side effect Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-04-10 13:50 +0200
        Re: Copying file has unexpected side effect David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-04-12 20:10 +0200

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